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Colby Books & Music

Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North
"Braverman left her California home at 18 to learn dog sledding in Norway. As she chronicles in this bold adventure memoir, she's returned again and again to the coldest places on earth in search of a fearlessness frequently off-limits to women." - O Magazine. Check out this amazing story
here.

Colby History
Brush up on some of Colby's impressive past events with Strider Years, which documents Robert E. Lee Strider's nineteen years as president of Colby College.
Want to learn more? College Historian and former Dean of the College, Earl H. Smith, chronicles Colby's interesting and surprising past in his very readable history,
Mayflower Hill: A History of Colby College. In addition,
Colby College: A Venture of Faith offers over 200 photographs that brings Colby's history to life.

Head of Falls
Set against the backdrop of a Lebanese-American mill town ghetto in the mid-1950s, this evocative work of historical fiction reflects a time when the emergence of television and the audacity of rock n' roll sparked the spirit of the young, and opened for them a new world of hope and possibilities.
Check out This fascinating story Here.

Crime Novels
Dig into captivating crime novels by Colby Alum, Gerry Boyle '78. In his first novel, Deadline, murder visits the seemingly sleepy town of Androscoggin, Maine. In the book,
New York Times crime reporter Jack McMorrow must struggle to find his way in the small, rural town, while undercurrents of violence draws him into deep and dangerous waters.
Check out more of Boyle's crime fiction here.

Professor James Fleming
Colby Prof. James Fleming delves into the rich history of meterology, atmposheric science, and climate change in his books,
Inventing Atmospheric Science: Bjerknes, Rossby, Wexler, and the Foundations of Modern Meteorology,
Historical Essays on Meteorology,and
Callendar Effect.

Professor Paul Josephson
Prof. Paul Josephson is the author of Fish Sticks, Sports Bras, and Aluminum Cans: The Politics of Everyday Technologies and
Lenin's Laureate: Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science.
Josephson's texts are provocative, complex and offer striking conclusions regarding modern world history.

10% Happier
Nightline anchor and Colby College Alumni Dan Harris opens up about his on-air panic attack on Good Morning American and reveals what he did to help reduce the stress in his life in
10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works--A True Story.
Colby Eight A Cappella
Get your groove on with music from the Colby Eight. From old time classics Lullaby of Broadway: A Cappella from The Colby Eight of 1963
and Try to Remember: A Cappella from The Colby Eight, 1955-1963 to modern hits Seven What?: A Cappella from The Colby Eight.
Intrigue and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz
New York Times Best Selling Author and Colby College Clara C. Piper Associate Professor of English Tilar Mazzeo explores the history of
Hotel Ritz on the Place Vendome. Set against the backdrop of 1940s Nazi occupied Paris,
The Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris
reveals forbidden affairs and acts of defiance and treachery at one of the most luxurious hotels in the world.